Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of City Development proposing a draft vision for the Council’s leisure centre provision.

The Director of City Development submitted a report outlining the current financial position of the Council’s Sport and Active Recreation Service and proposing a draft vision for Leisure Centre provision in Leeds.  The report also sought approval of a series of draft proposals regarding the provision of and investment in the Council’s Leisure Centres.

It was proposed that the consultation exercise, as detailed within the report, be revised in order to include all ten Area Committees.

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the pressures currently facing the Sport and Active Recreation Service be noted.

(b)  That approval be given to the undertaking of a public consultation exercise on the proposals set out in the report subject to the above revision, with the Director of City Development reporting back to the Board on the outcome of the consultation exercise in December 2008.

(Under the provision of Council Procedure Rule 16.5, Councillor Wakefield required it to be recorded that he voted against the decisions taken in this minute)